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SEPTEMBER. 1894. ' No 9

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-A Bi tt er Temptation.

Editor's Column

The Volcano of Kileiua

Th« D 173 of tha Weeks

Cminn lrutns

Press Nofcpa

A Small Boy '3 Composition

His Contri ■ mtion

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No. 9

A BITTER TEMPTATION.-Continued.

BY W. 3. HENDESON.

That year Muruford won by
two lengths; and the following
year they won by a length; and
the next year they had only half
a length to spare.

This year the Mumford colleg-
ians were in a bad state of mind.
All kinds of rumors had been a-
float as to tup manner in which
the Biddlevilles had been train-
ing for the race. Tie most dis-
turbing one was that a myster-
ious stranger, a big man with a
dark mustache, had bef n seen
steering the Bid dlevil I e shell and
coaching the crew; and it was
whispered that ne was no less a
personage than the stroke of the
Oxford University eight, who
vas visiting America, and had
friends in BiddlevilJe. Perhaps
th« Mumfords would have hem
more uneasy tbtn ever if th*y
had known who it really was. It
was simply the great "B jV Cook

, the coach of the Yale University
I crew, who had come down to o-
; blige his young friend, the Bid-
dleville boy, who was now in the
Yale Law School, in the waist of
the 'varsi+y shell. You see, the
rival schools closed late, and
thftir annual race took place a
week later than the Yale-Har-
vard race, so Mr. Cook could be
there without difficulty.

The Mnmford crew arrived at
Biddleville the day before the
race, and in the evening Charlie
Wentwortb, coxswain of the col-
legians, s'ood oa the river-
bank in front of their quarters in
deep meditation. He ha<i a feel-
i ing, which he co lid not drive a-
wty, that t;he Biddleville boys
j we.e going to win this year, and
I he was searching his brain for
some expedient- by which this
I might at the lost moment be pre-
vented. But think as he might,

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he couJd not see any way out of
it.

"If they can row faster than
we can," he said to himself, "tbev
will beat us, unless I see a chance
to take an advantage of them ir.
the course of the lac7;, and 1
mean to keep my wits about me."

The day upon which the race
was to take place proved to be
clear and warm, with a gentle
westerly breeze which would n^t
ruffle the wahr The town was
ia a great flutter bunting, and
the streets teemed with gayl)
costumed ladies. A big four-
horse coach, bearing a jolly part-
y of Mumford boys, rattled down
High Street to an accompani-
ment of mellow horn calls and
shrill cheers from the boys. The
MumfordL<, colors, purple and
white, streamed from the coach,
and whenever a lady was seen
wearing those colors she was
cheered. But of course the Bid-
dleville colors, yellow and blue,
were seen everywhere, and Bid-
dleville boys paraded the streets
in phoals, cheering, and singing,
"Here's to good old Bid,

For of Mumford she'll get rid;
Drink her down."

The race was set down for five
o'clock, and at that hour the

who'e population went down to
tie river The course was a mile
and a half long, and was almost
atraighfc, while the banks of thi
tiverro.se twenty faet or so above
rbe water, tuua making it pos^i
be for spectators near+he finish
to see the race from beginning
to end with good glasses.

"Taey lojkm;^ H7 strong in
the wa^t of the b^at," said Char-
lie Wentworth.

He was talking to Harvey
Storrs, stroke of the Mumford
four, as the Biddleville shell slid
by under easv swing, going up
to tne starting-point.

"They pull in stunning form,"
said Cyril Black, No. 3.

"Yes, bit its easy to do that
when you're going plowly, ' ans-
wered Storrs.

"Well, it warms a fellow's
heart to hear you talk,'' said
Black. "I don't believe you
would want to hang youreelf if
we were beaten."

"I don't think I should," said
Harvey; "but at the same timer
I mean to do all I can to prevent
them from beating us."

"They shall rot beat us!" ex-
claimed Charlie Wentworth pas-
sionately.

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lthongh times' are hard, and
money scarce, we take ju-*t
p ide in saying that our little
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flourishing state, (we mean finan-
cially) than at the present time.
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The Midwinter Fair isjuow a
thing of the past. Desolation
reigns supreme upon the once
merrv scene. The famous Mid-
way Plaisance where ttie fakers
and spielers were in their glory,
is po-f am?re pile of timber a id
staff. And the large main build-
ings are being carted away.

It seems a pity that it could,
not, always have been. But. ail
good things must come to an
end, and so with our Midwinter
Fair> May it long remain w'lh
ns as a T)leasnnt dream, that hi s
vanished in the darkness.

SJhe dkho.

Far The Echo.

THE VOLCANO OF KILEAUA.

BY the last mail from Honolu-
lu, ohroagh the kindness of
a friend, we received the follow-
ing discrip*,ion of thn Yol«an3of
Kileaua, and the Lake of Fire.
Undoubtedly it will interest our
readers.

The volcano is situated on the
island ol Hawaii, 250 mile* fron
Honolulu. From Hilo it is a stage
ride of thirty -two miles to the vol-
cano, through a dense tropical
forest. Bach sides of the road
are lined with ferns from fifteen
to thirty feet nigh; they grow on
trees.

About a half a mile before ap-
proaching the hotel, hot steam
and sulphurous vapors were seen
issuing from the earth on both
sides of the road. On« does not
see the volcano until fight at the
hotel 4040 feet above the sea.

The hotel is situated right on
ihe brink of the crater and is in
plain view of the lake.

There is a descent of about
eight hundred feet from the ver-
anda of the hotel, into the crater,

which i3 e'ght miles in circum-
ferenc >.

The Lake 67 Fire is three and
one half miles distant. On. horse-
back, with oui guide,, we rode
down the steep trail about one
mile, until >*£ leached the floor
of tne crater fad came upon
larva. Ihen we followed alor g
a i o nparatively biuooth trail o-
ver the larva bed until within
half a mile of thelak^, where we
tie j our horses and proceeded
on foot.

In a faw moments we could
feel the larva grow warmer as
we proceeded. Thore was no lag-
ging behind in slow walking we
were obliged to go on rather li-
vely to keep the sdes' of our
shoes from burning.

We walked in single fTe fol-
lowing the guide who touched
each piece of lava with his etick
before placing bis foot upon it,
and we were careful to do like-
wise. Tn many places, we placed
our walking sticks between
cracks in the lava and burned
them, and this was one half a
mile from the lake itself.

When one realizes that the la-
va on which he stands is but two
inches thick, and beneath that is

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Continued from page 2

"Then the Mumford crew toot
their places in thier boat, and
paddled slowly up to the start.
The Biddleville boys we»'o rest-
ing1 on their oars and sucking
lemoas. Frank Browheli, the
stroke oar, turned his head, and
said:

'"Now, boys, don't, let ?:nything
get you rattled, and I believe
we'll win this race. What evei
happens, even if the river turns
up sude down, keep your eyes
in the boat, kve-p time, gut your
legs and back iofo evey shoke,
find don't stop rowing.

"That's the talk, Frank," said
George Waters,tho ^oxswaiu "It
we don't beat those fellows this
year, it will be because we don't
attend strictly to business. We
have the muscle and we have the
stroke. AU we've got to do is to
pull hard and steer straight. You
fellows atoeni^othe pulling, and
I'll guarantee that the rudder
does not interfere ^ith you."

"Here they are," said Brown-
el!. "They're a wiry set, but I
believe we are too heavy for
them."

"And if -.---> teat them, "chimed in
Phil Terry, No. 3, "this town will
not be big enough to hold us."

" Eyes in the boat," said Wat-
ers. "Here's the referees launch.
Keep quiet now, boys, and listen
to orders,"

The water is smooth, and it
d i d not t ake tbe referee long to
get the crews into position. It
seemed only a second before tbe
pistol cracked, and the eight
strong backs swung forward.
Muniford had the start, Biddle-
ville's first two or three strokes
being ragged.

7 o be continued-

THE DAYS OF THE WEEK.

Sunday— Day of the Sun.

Monday— Day .of the Moon.

Tuesday- -God of war.

Wednesday— God of storms.

Thursday— God of thunder.

Friday — Goddess of marriage.

Saturday-God of time.

The names of the seven daj s
of the 'veek originated with the
Egyptian astronomers. They
gave them the names the Sun
Moon and five planets, viz: Mars
Mercury, J-ipitar, Venus and
Saturn. The Chinese an<; Thib-
etans have a week of five days,
named "after iron, wood, wa'er
feathers and earth.

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Continued from page 4.
eterna] fire, lie does not feel like
standiug too long in any one
place.

Before going farther, I roust
tell yon that the Lake of Fire
dropped down 200 feet about six
weeks ago, and the walls contin-
ually falling in, make it difficult
and very dangerous to approach
the brink.

We finally reached a safe
place about five in the afternoon
andstayed until nine in the even-
ing thus &eeing it by day and by
night.

It is useless for me to at-
tempt to describe this, the most
wonderful of Nature's phenom-
ena.

The Lake of Fir 3 covers ?n
area of about twelve acres. But
in *hat little space is all that I
ever care to see. .T

It was a grand and w mde: f ally
terrible sight It has a strange,
peculiar fascination that one can
hardly tear himself away .

It was like an oce^n of water
in a storm., with the waves of
uiolte.. lava dashing on the
sides of the pit. A huge boulder
fell in while we were present
and joined a sort of island, over
which the lava washed, like over

a ship at sea.

There was a steady current,
the lava actually flowing in one
direction, wherb to, God knows.
Thera were innumerable fount-
ains, souif fifty, feet high, splash-
ing as the surf, and the roarwa,3
a? if breakers were breaking on
a rough sf>a coast

In fact- one couid close his eyes
and imagine himself at some sea-
side, but for the h«at and that
infernal sulphmous smoke,

I went down twice, and all I
can say of it is; place Yosemite
Valley, Alaska, Niagara Falls to-
gether, and they will not com-
pare with this wonderful volca-
no.

CONUNDRUMS.

Why is a violent man under ar-
rest like the Monday's wash .-
He must be ironed.

most

What kind of cards are

used on Art or Day1?

Spades:

What is the difference between
the century plant and Aibor
Day?

One is a day of many plants
and the ether a plant of many
days.

She ffirho.

PRESS NOTES,

The following exchanges came
to , hand: The Newsboy, Herald
Bee, Monthly Visitor and The
fun.

After a vacation of several
weeks, The Fuu has made its re-
appearance. Although a great
improvement oo former issues,
still there is plenty rjoin for
more.

The Bee was received in its
usual neat style. Wo find our
name again not mentioned a-
moag the exchangas. How a-
bout it Mr. Fauoompre ?

We hear that. The Lilliputian
will henceforth appear as a mon-
thly. We anxiously await its
appearance.

We will exchange .vith all a-

mateur publications.

Where are all our exchanges?

Perhaps at the dead letter of-
fice.

the lop another layer of pebbles.
The water will filter pure and
clean through the aperture into
another vessel, however impure
previously.

HOWTOMAKEA WATER FILTER

Take a deep flower pot and
put a compressed sponge iv the
bottom. Over the sponge put a
layer of pebbles an inch thick;
next an inch of course sand;
next a layer of charcoal; and at

A Small Boy's Composition on
the Horse

The horse is an animal like
the elephant only different. He
don't carry any trunk but he has
ears like my rabbit. My Ma says
its awful ciuel to cut house's tails
'cauee she says, "What nature
put together, let no man cut a-
part," or something like that. I
suppose they say man because
its only men who cut off their
tails.

They have nails like acuv oq-
ly a cow has two nails and a
horse ha* only one. The horse
is tall and some ere about 17 feet
2 incnes high and some are only
2 feet 3 7 inches high.

The horse nails seem to be
made out of the same stuff that
an elephant's skin. Some horses
axe real, like other people be-
cause they grow pompedoors. I
don't know if I spelled that
right or mt, and so n i always
black their nails, like we black
our fhoes.

8fhc (Mo

Mr. -tone's horse is a very
^on"e''iil animal because he
said he kicked thunder cuf of
his boy Frank, and a horse that
can kiektbunder out of anything
raisi be like Franklin who saw
ejectricity in his latch-key.

•J. J.

His Contribution.

A. certain teacher, wnqse work
brings her into the midst of a
very crowded ci£y region, iis al-
ways anxious to keep track of
contagious diseases th^ie and
asked her pupils to bring., her
word whenever they see a plac-
ard in a window announcing scar-
let fever, small pox, or the like.

On9 day a little Italian boy,
who does not yet "spik Inglis '
very well, put tip his hand to in-
dicate that, he had seen sach &
sign.

"What did it say?" aaked the
teacher, encouragingly.

Slowly and painfully came the
answer, but it was delivered
with much pride:

"It— say, 'To-let.' "

Young women who ride bicyles
may be spoken of as "Daughters
of the Revolution."

Friend— What a perfectly lov~
ly dress ycu wore last evening-
very la! est Parisian style, too;
only i eceived two days ago. Your
dress makers must be wonderf nl-
quick. Where did you get
it made?

MijsH Bangupp— My grand-
mother found it in my great-
grandmother's old trunk.

A4-ye?;r-o!d buy was blubering
lustily on tile street yesterday.
Some kind-hearted stranger had
tried to soothe him with a stick
of curdy, and his face was bes-
meared with sticky tears and
dirt.

"Well, what's the matter wiih
you?" asked the officer on the
beat "Are you lost?"

K-n-no, sir," the boy sobbed.:
I've in jslaid ray papa.

"Say, Mike, why '.don't you buy
a bicycle?"

"Bekas - it I want ter walk I'll-
walk standing up."

Tramp-Madam, I was not al-
ways thus.

Madam-No. It was jour other
arm you had in a sling this morn-
ng.

Our Editorial Booms are now
connected with the oat side
world by telegra i h.

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Ferguson You don't look like
a man who has just said good-
night to his adored- Perhaps the
old man came to the door in time
to see you off?

Hankinson He came to the
door, blaoie him, in time to saw
me off!

"I hear yoar sou has become
an actor; how is he getting on?"

"Very well, indeed. He began
as a corpse, and now he has al-
ready advanced to the role of a
ghost.

"It is strange what a time we
have with coo s, d^ar," said Mr
Innis. "Dawson was telling me to-
day that they had theirs for ten
years."

'"Yes, dear; and did he tell you
who she was?"

"No. Wh^?"

"Hip wife."

A. young woman was tradjog in
a stationer's shop, and the elder-
ly proprietor suddenly asked:

"And when does the wedding
take place?"

"The wedding? Why, you
don't think—" the fair custom-
er blushed an^ hesitated.

"Ah, miss, when young 1 vdies

buy a hundred sheets of paper
and only twenty-rive envelopes. I
know there is something in the

wind"

"How savagely that cow looks
at me," said a young woman — a
summer boarder — to a f arme r.

"It's your red parasol, ma'am,"
he answered.

"Dear me!" said the maiden.
"I knew ij was a little out of
fashion, but I didn't suppose a
country cow would notice it."

The person who is inclined to
boast of his valuable possessions
is likely to nave the laugh turn-
ed u.jou him, on occasion. A
wealthy man was once exhibiting
proudly to some acquaintances a
tablo which he ha I bought, and
which, he said, was five hundred
yeirs old.

"That is nothing,'' saidono of
the company. "I have in my
possession a table which is over
th^ee thousand years old. '

"Three thousand years old!"
said his host. "That is imposs-
ibla. Where was it made?"

"Probably in India"

"In India? What kind of a
table is it?"

"The multiplication table." ,

G'rls can't sharpen pecciK nor play Base Ball i^cl slide;

They even fear a little mouse, or a clog securely tied;
But when it comes to Chewing Gum— jus': ask what kind they

chew,
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